Do You Wear Your Engagement Ring On Your Wedding Day

Some women choose to ignore ring etiquette and instead infuse their own style on the custom.

Do you wear your engagement ring on your wedding day. Some like to wear their wedding bands every day and reserve their engagement rings for special occasions or when they dress up. As far as how to stack them tradition holds that you ll wear the wedding band inside. So there are basically two things you can do with your engagement ring during the wedding ceremony.

Conversely some like to wear their sparkling engagement rings all the time and forgo their wedding bands entirely. It s up to you. Then after the nuptials they return the ring to their left hand over the wedding band.

No one ever said you have to wear them at the same time. When you do so your wedding ring should remain closest to your heart where your spouse placed it on your wedding day and your engagement ring is placed next to the wedding ring. Some variations on the traditional ring placement include.

Afterward the order of the rings can be changed. So to leave it out of the ceremony does not seem fare. The nature of engagement ring design means it s exposed to many potential dangers that wedding bands aren t.

A word of caution. Although if you plan on wearing the engagement ring on your right hand just make sure it fits. Especially if you re wearing gloves.

Most people move their engagement ring to their right hand so that the wedding band will not be upstaged and can be placed first on your finger in its traditional position closest to the heart you may also want to not wear your engagement ring that day stow it somewhere safe. Traditionally you wear your engagement ring and wedding ring together on the fourth finger of your left hand. If you decide to wear the engagement ring on your right hand make sure it fits comfortably since a lost or stuck piece of jewelry can sour any wedding day.